C road crash in Havering RM12 on 31 December 2017 at 19:25 involving a Scania bus
A Scania bus crashed on a C road in Havering at 19:25 on Sunday 31 December 2017. A 68-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Dec 2017
- Sunday, 19:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Scania
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.54938, longitude 0.19951, in the RM12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Havering. It is one of the crashes that make up the Elm Park, Havering, RM12 5EP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Havering
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010080946
- Council area
- Havering
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 April 2022.
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Alexander Dennis crash on a C road in Havering, 24 April 2022
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10 m awayRef 201301KD50583
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Toyota Yaris crash on a C road in Havering, 19 March 2024
13 m awayRef 2024010500693
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Car crash on a C road in Havering, 3 November 2004
14 m awayRef 200401KD50006
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Toyota Prius crash on a C road in Havering, 18 April 2025
18 m awayRef 2025010570235
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on a C road in Havering, 2 November 2007
30 m awayRef 200701KD68119
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Scania
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 9,000 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 68, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Scania)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Standing passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 2017010080946 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Havering road accident statistics for 2017.